John Oliver on riots and looting.
June 8, 2020 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2020 at 12:51 pm by Brian37.)
Watch this episode, and he nails it. Trevor Noah also made the same point earlier this week on "social contract". It is something white people don't get. It isn't enough to parade around images of kumbia between blacks and police in the news. And it isn't enough for blacks to say, "don't burn down your own neighborhoods." The truth is this rinse and repeat rhetoric hasn't changed the systemic inequality that still exists today. What we see today is long term, and not only about policing.
My late mother often pointed to her admiration of Martin Luther King Jr, but didn't understand Malcolm X. What white people miss between them, is that even Martin Luther King often said of Malcolm, while he himself did not use Malcolm's tactics he understood the reaction. White people need to stop being so judgemental in socai unrest when others are abused. Plymouth Rock landed on black people and equality will never happen until white people stop harping the old line of "peaceful protest" until they are willing to stop the sparks that lead to unrest. That is the point Trever and Oliver both are making.
One line Oliver used struck me as very profound about white ignorance in the following clip, and he was criticising media in general, "If you use the word Macys more than you do "Breonna Taylor" (AN EMT murdered by cops because of a no knock warrant gettng the wrong house). Meaning Macy's can handle the loss, an innocent black EMT wont get her life back.
Here is the lady whom he has in his clip.
My late mother often pointed to her admiration of Martin Luther King Jr, but didn't understand Malcolm X. What white people miss between them, is that even Martin Luther King often said of Malcolm, while he himself did not use Malcolm's tactics he understood the reaction. White people need to stop being so judgemental in socai unrest when others are abused. Plymouth Rock landed on black people and equality will never happen until white people stop harping the old line of "peaceful protest" until they are willing to stop the sparks that lead to unrest. That is the point Trever and Oliver both are making.
One line Oliver used struck me as very profound about white ignorance in the following clip, and he was criticising media in general, "If you use the word Macys more than you do "Breonna Taylor" (AN EMT murdered by cops because of a no knock warrant gettng the wrong house). Meaning Macy's can handle the loss, an innocent black EMT wont get her life back.
Here is the lady whom he has in his clip.
